THE FINAL MANIFEST

Wren Ashworth crossed half a galaxy to finally meet the one person she'd let herself love. She got there an hour too late.

For three years, librarian Wren Ashworth has known Iris Marchetti only through letters, twice a season, in handwriting soft with rereading. Now she's finally traveling to Halyard Relay to see her in person, letter in her pocket, kettle promised on the other end.

She's also going to Halyard to testify. Corwin Hale, the man behind a friend's murder back home, is standing extradition, and Wren is the only witness who can put the murder weapon in his hand.

An hour after she lands, Iris is dead in the archive wing. The extradition case file is missing. And the officer investigating both calls it a coincidence Wren refuses to believe.

With six days until the hearing, one overrun customs station, and a sixteen-year-old assistant more used to solving mysteries on television than off it, Wren has to find out who silenced Iris, why the case against Corwin keeps circling back to a discrepancy buried in decades of shipping manifests, and whether the people running Halyard Relay want the truth found at all.

Perfect for readers who love:

• Cozy science fiction that raises the stakes without losing its warmth
• A grieving amateur sleuth working outside her hometown for the first time
• A found-family cast, old friends and new allies standing in the gap
• A closed-station mystery with a corporate conspiracy underneath it
• A slow-burn story that resolves in a hopeful direction, not a tidy one

A note for series readers: THE FINAL MANIFEST carries more grief than book one. It earns that weight with the same patient, community-minded voice Wren fans already know, and it ends looking forward, not back.

THE FINAL MANIFEST is Book 2 in the Wren Ashworth cozy sci-fi mystery series, following THE LAST CHECKOUT.

Scroll up and tap Buy Now to find out what Wren finds in the manifest.